LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS. [ BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2160, 13 May 1886, Page 2

LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS. [ BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington, Wednesday. The third Session of the ninth Parliament will be opened at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternoon by His Excellency the Governor. The D Battery of Artillery will fire the usual Balute, and the Wellington Na\als' will forqi the guard of honour. At present not many of the members are here, but it is expected that twenty-five members of the House of Representatives will be present at the opening ceremony. The Financial Statement will probably be delivered within a fortnight after the opening of Parliament. The Hon.' Mr Barnicoat will, it i« understood, bo asked to move, and the Hon. Mr Shrimski to second the Address-in-Reply in tlie Legislative Council. Mr Bevan moves the Address in the Lower House, but the seconder is> not yet known. The members of the Harbour B ard, and that the City Council way an official vi&it to Japanese warship Tsukuba on Friday, The Hon John Bryoe and Sir G. Grey arrive to-morrow morning by the Tainui from Auckland. The Hinemoa. arrived to-night with most of the Kortlien' members. Major Atkinson and Col. Trimble came from Taranaki overland this evening. A petition has been filed in the Divorce Court by Mrs E. Sawkins, of Wellington, for a dissolution of her marriage with Thos. Geo. Sawkins, journalist, lately of Napier, on the grounds of desertion, cruelty and adultery. At the Appeal Court, the Auckland case ofTe Raihi v. Grice is still being aigued, and is not likely to conclude before tomorrow.